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MFT #8 Halloween (1978)
John Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween is one of my favorite things. Here’s why. Read more
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Throwback Friday #27 Three Five One (2016)
I was drinking Red Bull and eating handfuls of almonds to sustain me through my long night alone in the sprawling impressive house in which this image was taken. At this point, I’d made it… Read more
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Ersilia (2020)
Our garden is full of threads at the moment; the elaborate, death-defying webs of the orb spiders, with their juicy brown bodies. When Graeme Daly over at Gentle Giant offered up the city of Ersilia… Read more
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Phil Cooper / Painting Chimera #4
It’s always exciting when artist Phil Cooper sends me his new Chimera-themed paintings, not least because Phil has complete freedom in terms of which elements within each chapter he focuses on. For this week’s painting,… Read more
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The Kick-About #13 ‘Ersilia’
Last time it was fairies and other flights of fancy. I think many of us enjoyed the opportunity for a spot of magical-thinking. This new edition of the Kick-About begins with the no less improbable… Read more
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MFT #7 Long Weekend (1978)
Long Weekend, directed by Colin Eggleston in 1978, is one of my favourite things. Here’s why. Read more
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Chimera Book 1 / Chapter 8 – The Moppet-Drover
The clocks have gone back. The weather is rotten. It’s time to get comfortable with a cuppa and biscuit and pick-up where we left off with Kyp Finnegan and Atticus Weft at the mercy of… Read more
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Throwback Friday #26 Six Spot Burnett
I can’t really remember very much about this photograph, except it was very likely taken up on the cliff top paths of Polperro, Cornwall, sometime in the early part of the 2000s. I can tell… Read more
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Knave’s Ash, October (2020)
We left the house late on Tuesday afternoon, the sun already leaving the sky. The wind was getting up too, so by the time we arrived at Knave’s Ash, the camera was struggling. That said,… Read more
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Phil Cooper / Painting Chimera #3
In Chapter 7 of Chimera Book 1, Kyp Finnegan finds himself all alone in the Bedrock Catacombs after narrowly escaping the clutches of Madame Chartreuse and her two henchmen, the Berserker and the Tealeaf. Like… Read more
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